Explanation: Of
course, everyone is concerned about what to wear to a
solar
eclipse.
This is a great example though, especially for the first eclipse of
the International Year of
Astronomy 2009.
In the picture, recorded during the
January
26 solar eclipse
from the grounds of the
South African Astronomical Observatory
at Cape Town, repeated images of the eclipse
adorn
a well-chosen shirt.
The effect is familiar to eclipse enthusiasts as small gaps,
commonly between
leaves on trees, act as
pinhole
cameras to generate multiple recognizable images of
the eclipse.
From the Cape Town perspective, the solar eclipse was a
partial one, with a maximum of about 65% of the Sun
covered.
But along a track extending across the Indian Ocean and western
Indonesia the eclipse became annular, the solar disk briefly
appearing as a fiery ring around the
silhouetted Moon.